German Police Conduct Raids On Neo-nazi Homes

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December 4, 1991

DRESDEN, GERMANY — German police raided the homes of neo-Nazis in 30 cities Tuesday after violence against foreigners that has shaken the recently unified country, officials said. There was no immediate word on the results of the raids, which were carried out on the orders of the Criminal Investigation Office in Saxony, the economically troubled eastern state where some of the worst violence has occurred. Apart from Saxony, there were raids on houses in the states of Brandenburg and Berlin in Germany's formerly Communist east and in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Hesse and Lower Saxony in the west, a police official said. Neo-Nazi gangs have assaulted asylum-seeking foreigners and resident immigrants or set fire to their hostels hundreds of times this year.